For subscribers, the August 2022 issue of the CPI Update appears attached below, and deals with the following cases:
•Analysing solicitors’ duties of care – Spire Property Development LLP & Anor v Withers LLP.
•Applying adverse possession transitional rules – Calverley Village Day Nursery Ltd v Lynch & Anor.
•Legal costs as service charge items – Dell v 89 Holland Park Management Ltd.
•Dedication of land as a highway – DPP v Instone.
•Notice to quit served by joint tenants – Pile v Pile.
•SDLT/CGT and transferrable goodwill – HMRC v Denning & Ors.
•Liability for COVID-19 rents – Bank of New York Mellon (International) Limited v Cine-UK Limited and London Trocadero (2015) LLP v Picturehouse Cinemas Limited.
There is also coverage of:
•The Register of Overseas Entities under the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022.
•Land Registry prescribed forms for overseas entities.
•Law Society guidance on the Register of Overseas Entities.
•Land Registry guidance on surrender and regrant.
•Law Society guidance on undertakings – Law Society practice guidance.
Published on 31 July 2022.
Property PSL